Friday, May 25, 2012

Catherine of Braganza

“The
greatest fault of Catherine of Braganza,” says Sir Walter Scott , “was her
being educated a Catholic; her greatest misfortune bearing the King no
children: and her greatest foible an excessive love of dancing.”

The quote above was used by John Jesse, in “Memoirs of
the Court of England during the reign of the Stuarts...”.It first appeared in “Dryden’s Works”, edited
by Scott.John Evelyn saw Catherine as
she arrived in London for the first time.From Evelyn’s diary: